data Ignoring warrants, the Secret Service has been buying up location data from phone companies Thom Dunn
location privacy How one guy's exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, thanks to Google's Geofence Warrants Thom Dunn
Business AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon face FCC fines after probe finds they failed to protect user location data Xeni Jardin
privacy New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm Cory Doctorow
google Manhattan DA served Google with a "reverse search warrant" in a bid to prosecute antifa protesters Cory Doctorow
privacy Vast majority of Americans and Europeans believe ad-targeting and feed customization are immoral Cory Doctorow
fcc Data-broker implicated in bounty-hunters' access to mobile location data lobbied FCC to fight consent for sharing location data Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Trump's FCC chairman won't do anything about your cellular company selling your location to bountyhunters because shutdown Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets Google Fi to carriers: don't sell our customers' location data to third parties Cory Doctorow
telcoms Why the hell do we continue to believe the carriers' promises to respect our privacy? Cory Doctorow
privacy Bounty hunters track targets by buying realtime location data generated by T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Cory Doctorow
privacy Surveillance libraries in common smartphone apps have amassed dossiers on the minute-to-minute movements of 200 million+ Americans Cory Doctorow
security The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow
Business Ad brokers are selling the fact that you visited an emergency room to ambulance-chasing lawyers Cory Doctorow
happy mutants California proposes location-tracking, e-ink license plates that display "STOLEN" if a car is boosted Cory Doctorow
